Posts by Idiot Savant
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So people become multi-class? You have to start at zero XP in the new class, though.
No, that's dual-class. Multi-class means (to a certain age of Gamer) that you put half (or appropriate fraction) in each.
(I deny the existence of 3rd ed, or anything which came after it, except as computer games).
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several Trotterites crawling out of the woodwork
And (unmentioned by me) a whole bunch of people disagreeing with them.
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How often do people beg you for money walking around NZ?
Too often. And more often in recent years.
Stopping people from needing to beg is one of the things we're meant to have a government for. And if it won't do it, then what bloody good is it?
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people are sick to the back teeth with being treated with smug reverse snobbery for daring to disagree with a certain socially liberal POV
What, that all people are equal, and deserve to be treated equally?
That's not "a certain socially liberal POV" - its the absolute core of left-wing thinking.
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Labour and their supporters can either go on relitigating these debates, almost certainly lose them all again, and definitely get a lot of potential voters pissed off at them again - or they can draw a line under them and say 'we're just not going to go there anymore. People didn't like it. We listened. So our focus will be on the economy'.
Or, to put it another way, accept injustice, discrimination and bigotry, and do nothing about them.
Fuck that.
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You people all realise that health is a prohibited ground of discrimination in NZ, and that sacking someone for being sick is both illegal and immoral, right?
And yes, that applies to the House too. The BORA binds them just as much as it binds every other part of the government.
But Carter aside, I agree its a potential problem, which needs to be dealt with. And Graeme's suggestion of simply making it a contempt is a good one. Besides, it would help focus contempt on how the House manages itself, and away from it trying to manage what we think of it.
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I'm thinking of solutions that don't require changes to the law - like you I agree that it's not a particularly useful one. Is there the possibility of a statutory body (the SSC?) publishing a register of attendance? I mean, it's difficult enough to work out who attended Parliament on a particular day, let alone 120 MPs over 3 years of sitting.
I suspect that's the sort of thing they'd regard as a contempt.
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VGrateful if you could cite sources for saying that MPs and Ministers are vetted.
I'd like to know this too, because I find the thought of the SIS having some sort of veto on our democratic representation deeply disturbing.
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I summarised the entries, with quotes where I thought it would help (most entries, after all, are dead boring). Dim-Post has (some of) the full records here (though they've missed a few); alternatively I can forward you a text version.
(Comparing Danyl's and my lists, looks like I missed one as well. Whoops)
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I/S has a grep of everything in the leaks mentioning NZ here. Better than anything I have seen from local press so far ....
The Herald excerpted the more interesting bits.